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Massachusetts State Trooper George Hamilton holds up a recovered stuffed moose head Oct. 30 in Lee, Mass. The head was stolen from a hunting camp in the Berkshires. Authorities, alerted by an area taxidermist, posed as buyers to meet the individual offering the stolen moose head for sale. The moose head, stolen once before in the 1980s, has sat above a Becket, Mass., hunting lodge since the 1940s.

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David Chick on his mobile phone at the top of a 120-foot crane in the center of London, Nov. 5. Chick was protesting in a bid to draw attention to the plight of fathers denied access to their children.

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David Campbell uses a powerwasher to clean the statue at the Lincoln Memorial during the National Park Service's annual cleaning, Monday, Nov. 3, in Washington.

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Aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, are reflected in the calm waters of Allen Pond in Greene, Maine, Thursday evening, Oct. 30.

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Lyndall Grant, a 49-year-old landscaping designer, has worked intermittently as an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator for the past several years, but business is booming now that the Austrian-born strongman has been elected governor of California. Grant has doubled his hourly rate to $400, and instead of playing "The Terminator" once or twice a month, he's doing it three or four times a week.

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Larry Wood, a chief designer of "Hot Wheels" for 35 years, holds a Cadillac Escalade, Oct. 22, in Los Angeles. Thirty-five years after toy designers launched the Hot Wheels line of die-cast metal cars the appeal remains strong among boys as well as collectors, inspiring a bevy of online fan sites and sometimes fetching thousands of dollars at online auctions.

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A breed of horses native to the state of Rajasthan, graze next to the ferris wheels set at a fair as the day unwinds on the grounds of the Pushkar Camel fair in Rajasthan, India, Nov. 7. Despite ongoing tension between India and Pakistan, tens of thousands of tourists flock to watch the trade of more than 25,000 camels during the annual fair, making it the worlds largest camel market.

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Firefighters inspect the cab of an 18-wheeler after an accident, Oct. 31, on Interstate 10 over Lake Pontchartrain near Slidell, La. The driver lost control of the dump truck, jumping the guardrail.

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A model becomes a serving station for sushi as Bonzai chef and owner Jun Hong, top right, covers the woman's torso for "naked sushi" in Seattle, Nov. 9. Activists are strategizing on how to persuade the restaurant to stop the weekly displays. The practice involves an array of raw fish and other Japanese delicacies placed on clear plastic wrap over the torso of a prone model wearing a thong and a few flower petals.

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The world's most pierced woman, Elaine Davidson, who has 1,093 piercings, from Brazil, and the man with the world's longest tongue, at 9.6cms from top lip protrusion point, Stephen Taylor from Coventry, England, pose at London's Tate Britain gallery to celebrate the book of Guinness World Records 100th millionth copy in print, Nov. 11.

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Mitoyo Kawate, the 114-year-old Japanese woman who had assumed the title of the world's oldest person last month, shown a recent file photo in Hiroshima, died Nov. 13. Kawate, born on May 15, 1889, died of pneumonia. The Guinness World Records recognized Kawate as the oldest person alive on Oct. 31 after the previous holder, Kamato Hongo from southern Japan, passed away.

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Damaged crates and thousands of apples litter the median strip of Interstate 81 in Chambersburg, Pa., early Nov. 12. The mess was due to an overnight truck accident.

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Australian crocodile expert John Lever, right, talks to reporters before the start of his operation to catch a rogue crocodile in the town of Yuen Long, Nov. 14. Lever began his hunt by placing chicken heads as bait for the 4-foot reptile that has become a local media sensation after eluding Hong Kong officials for nearly two weeks.

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A Fijian warrior holds a traditional war axe during a ceremony of apology for British missionary Rev. Thomas Baker, who was eaten in 1867, in Nabutautau, Fiji, Nov 13. Descendants of Rev Baker attended the ceremony in the remote community in the hills of the South Pacific Island of Viti Levu where the residents say their community has been cursed since Baker and eight Fijian followers were consumed 136 years ago.